Once of the challenges with Max is his amazing capacity to jump and kiss your nose, hop a fence, latch onto your hair and clean your scalp (seriously). If it is done on-command, CL has no problem with the behavior. If it's done without the "okay" from She Who Must Be Obeyed? Not good. Here's what usually happens:
Max: "I love you, I love you, I love you, you are the BEST HUMAN EVER."
Max (2 second later): "I want to eat your nose! YUM!"
I have an amazing friend (Master Nick, he's the young dude in the pictures) who lives next door and visits four times a week. He helps CL feed, walk and take care of me. During his recent visits, he has been working with Max on training. (Max is wonderful with children, especially a high energy 8-year-old!) To date, Master Nick has taught Max to sit, lay down and walk on a leash. Lately, he has been working on Max' need to jump. The method is easy:
Every time Max starts to jump, Master Nick turns his back and ignores him. Once Max calms down, Master Nick turns around and gives the jumpin' Jack-A-Poo positive reinforcement (aka LOVE) for the calm and gentle behavior.
Check out the results, so far:
Pretty cool, huh?
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2 comments:
that brat has a future. oh and the Kid Master Nick isn't so bad either.
We think Mister Nick is on his way to be an excellent dog trainer.
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